SQL Server 2016 Community Technology Preview 2.4 is publicly released and the latest SQL Server bits can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-sql-server-2016 . MDS Excel Add-in can be found at : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47343 Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) While using Bing Maps last night to look for directions I thought of a way to use MDS business rules to create a Bing Map URL link attribute. This may sound like merely Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) Up until this point we have been laying the foundation for enabling the human workflow. Along the way ( Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ) you’ve been exposed to other Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) In Part 1 you made the necessary model changes. In Part 2 you made the security changes to give the new groups the required security access and permissions . In this Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) In Part 1 you made the necessary model changes. In this post we will continue with Step 6, making the security changes necessary to meet the requirements of our workflow Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS Team) In my last post , I showed how to create a simple validation business rule. In this post, we are going to look at more advanced capabilities by using business rules Read More...

(this post was contributed by Brian Barnett, Senior Software Engineer on the MDS team) This post is a first in a series that will explore what you can do with SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services (MDS) business rules. It will introduce business rule Read More...